Tool-holding clasp.



E. WESTBERG.

TOOL HOLDING CLASP.v APPLICATION FILED JULY 7.1917.

1,261,080., Patented Apr. 2, 1918.

ERICK WESTIBERGg'OF DOUGLAS, NORTH DAKOTA.

Toon-HOLDING CLASP.

Specication of Letters Patent.

Patented Apr. 2, 1918..

Application led July 7, 1917. Serial N o. 179,155.

To all whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, Enron WEsTnRe, a citizen of the United States, residing at Douglas, in the county of Ward and State of North Dakota, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Tool-Holding Clasps; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

My invention has for its obj ect to provide a clasp for securing mechanics tools in the pockets of their overalls or other garments; and, to this end, it consists of the novel devices and combinations of devices hereinafter described and dened in the claim.

In the accompanying drawings, which illustrate the invention, like characters indicate like parts throughout the several views.

Referring to the drawings,

Figure l is a fragmentary view of a person having on a pair of overalls, in the pocket of which is a pair of pliers secured to the overalls by the invention; and

Fig. 2 is a fragmentary perspective view of the overalls, pliers and clasp.

The numeral 3 indicates a person, diametrically illustrated by means of broken lines, having on a pair of overalls 4: with a pocket 5. Within this pocket 5, is a pair of pliers 6 detachably secured to the overalls by the invention which, as shown, comprises a fiat body member 7 having pressed therefrom an upwardly projecting spring linger 8, the free end of which is bent to normally lie close to said body member. The body member 7 is secured by a pair of split rivets 9 to the overalls 4f, directly over the pocket 5. To prevent the rivets 9 from tearing outl of the overalls 4, there is placed on the inside of said overalls an anchor plate 10, having at its ends holes, through which the rivets 9 are passed, before being upset.

A split ring 1l is secured to one of the handles of the pliers 6, by drilling a hole therethrough, to receive said ring. The pliers 6 are secured to the clasp by Pressing the ring 11 between the spring nger 8 and the body 7 so that said ring is held interlocked with the spring finger, as shown in Fig. 2. The fact that the free end of the nger 8 lies close to the body member 7 prevents the ring ll from being accidentally detached therefrom. With the ring l1 interlocked with the finger 8, the pliers 6 cannot drop out of the pocket 5, when the mechanic stoops over, or they cannot be accidentally pulled out of the pocket with other articles. The movement required to move the pliers 6 from the pocket 5 will, at the same time, detach the ring 11 from the clasp.

It is, of course, understood that various other tools, in place of the pliers 6, may be secured by the improved clasp, and said clasp may take various dili'erent forms. In some instances, it might be desirable to form the ring l1 integral with the tool.

What I claim is Apclasp comprising a flat body member, a spring hook stamped and pressed from the intermediate portion of the body member, and means for attaching the body member to a garment at points both above and below said hook.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

ERICK WESTBERG.

Witnesses:

O. L. ODEGARD, GORDON RUTTEN.

Gopieo of this patent may 'be obtained for ve cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents.

Washington, D. C. 

